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Huey Lewis of HL & the News... 80's rock band...........attended and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, an all-male prep school in New Jersey, in 1967, and he achieved a perfect score of 800 on the Maths portion of the SAT.

Who knew?!

Elephants have funerals.
Dogs and cats can do simple math.
Cheetahs can run faster than a car on the highway.
A lot of people think insects aren't animals. Insects are animals.
A gorilla's scientific name is Gorilla gorilla gorilla. How creative!

Aren't animals cool?

The Ouija Board named itself. According to its inventors, ‘Ouija’ was the game’s response to the question of what it wanted to be called. They also claim that when they asked what ‘Ouija’ means, it replied: “Good luck.”

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I thought ouija was "Yes" in French (oui) and German (ja)

^^ Yikes.

Scientists used a confocal laser microscope to map the topography of an IHOP flapjack and determined that the state of Kansas is really flatter than pancake.

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It is common for many authors, successful or not, to discard their first attempt at writing and pretend it never existed.

Before achieving fame, Tom Petty (RIP) worked as a gravedigger.

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Les croiseurs cuirassés firent la différence dans la bataille d'Ulsan (1904), la guerre russo-japonaise (1904-1905) et la bataille de Tsushima (1905). Mais, dès 1907, ils devinrent vite obsolètes quand la Royal Navy commença à engager les croiseurs de bataille de classe Invincible puis les cuirassés de classe Dreadnought.

Die Bezeichnung Panzerkreuzer kam mit den um 1930 gebauten Panzerschiffen der Deutschland-Klasse nochmals in Gebrauch. Diese Schiffe wurden aufgrund der Auflagen aus dem Versailler Vertrag entworfen, die den Bau von echten Großkampfschiffen untersagten. Der Streit darum, ob sich die krisengeschüttelte Weimarer Republik den Bau neuer größerer Kampfschiffe überhaupt leisten könne, wurde 1928 als sogenannte Panzerkreuzer-Debatte im Reichstag ausgetragen und führte zu einer Regierungskrise.

The Russian navy became the first to produce an armored warship intended for commerce raiding, with 'General-Admiral', begun in 1870 and launched in 1873, often referred to as the first armored cruiser. Armed with six 8-inch (203 mm) and two 6-inch (152 mm) guns, she and her sister 'Gerzog Edinburgski' were not fully armored but protected only by a narrow belt along the waterline. This belt, moreover, was so heavy that it sat below the ships' waterlines, which limited its benefit still further. Since they were iron-hulled, however, they were more durable than their wooden counterparts. With a top speed of only 12.3 knots (22.8 km/h) and a high coal consumption, which necessitated a full sailing rig, they were not really suited for the role of cruiser. Nevertheless, these ships were considered a new threat to British commerce in the event of war, the rationale being that any vessel, regardless of its speed, could technically be a threat to overseas commerce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_cruiser
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkreuzer
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croiseur_cuirass%C3%A9

Your brain starts slowing down at the age of 24. This when the cognitive motor performance, or reaction time, of people playing video games shows the first sign of decline. You’re not getting dumber, though, because your brain then begins to compensate by relying on experience and mental shortcuts- so your thought process actually becomes more efficient.

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by this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Aurora
i noticed the 100th anniversairy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/409027-red-o ... evolution/

i just got some family to see the trenches, reluctantly,
as that was due for some time already

and some other sjit -hushhush-
i have a block for anything ^^ but what's that with that?
what do i know?

Human tears contain crystals that can generate electricity.

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The taller a person is, the more money they are likely to make.

(I'm 5' 9" [175 cm], and suddenly I feel inferior because of this.)

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